Another afternoon movie: Ask the Dust

The film version of the book we both just completed and enjoyed so much. Ask the Dust, the movie, is different than the book, more romantic, but similar in a lot of ways as well. Both of us enjoyed the changes and the additions, the decidedly more romantic Arturo Bandini, the more complete fruition of his relationship with the lovely Mayan Princess, Camille. Still there was enough of the original story to recognize John Fante and also empathize with the Fante devotees who screamed and yelled about the movie being so different and ruining the story. A good love story and I really enjoyed the view of 1939-1940 Los Angeles.